![]() How cute was that?Īnd then came ‘Fast love’ ‘Too funky’ and ‘Shoot the dog’ in his racy days. Then along came ‘As’ with Mary J Blige which totally blew our minds. We copied the dance steps, AND tried (in vain) to get suits that were as close as we could get to the fab ones that the duo wore in the video. Not to mention all the in-betweens hits like ‘don’t let the sun go down on me’ at the Wembley stadium – his duets with Elton John and even greats like Freddy Mercury before the latter died. Or ‘I knew you were waiting’ with Aretha Franklin. Here’s one song of George’s that I haven’t mentioned yet. I have so many favourites but this one – it’s really something special to me. I have loved this particular song since I was a little girl and I didn’t quite understand the intrinsic meaning of the song. I held unto that song till adulthood, still in love with it as the deep meaning grew even clearer to me. It brings tears to my eyes whenever I play it, whenever I sing it. It’s called ‘I don’t want your Freedom.’ It is so emotional, it’s so touching, so loving, so vulnerable. It’s about loving someone who wants to set you free but you don’t want that kind of freedom to play around because this thing going on here means much more to you than anything you’ve ever felt before. You want to be fully committed and you don’t want that kind of relationship where you can see other people. You’re so neck deep that you’re not even embarrassed to bear it all and be so transparently vulnerable. The freedom video shoot was taken in China where George Michael and Andrew Ridgley were acting as ambassadors of sorts and representatives of pop culture and of the western world at a time of political significance. The video opens with about a minute of the band talking under clips of the Chinese people and the countryside. Wham! was one of the biggest acts on MTV at the time, but the network, fearing the short attention spans of their viewers, wanted to cut out the intro (this was before Michael Jackson changed the game with “ Thriller“). ![]() The band’s manager, Simon Napier-Bell, refused, and MTV ended up airing the full video. Napier-Bell apparently found the negotiations with MTV much easier than those with the Chinese government. This is a quote from George Michael about this song: Because until then I had no real understanding of my abilities, but with ‘Freedom,’ I started to take myself seriously as a writer.” In an interview with the Christmas 2009 issue of The Big Issue, Michael said of this song, that when he wrote it he knew he had arrived: “When I was 19, I wrote ‘Freedom’ – the original version – and I thought, ‘I can’t believe I’ve just done that!’ I was absolutely thrilled. This song hit #1 in the UK in October 1984. In America, the song wasn’t released until August 1985, peaking at #3 that year after the video was released. This entry was tagged Fortress, Gaming, Shooter, Team, Valve. Thanks for Reading, also if you have any suggestions for games I should cover in the future, please comment down below and I’ll consider it for a future blog post. ![]() And even if I don’t the game as much as I did back then, I can still appreciate it. But thanks to a colorful and interesting cast of characters Team Fortress 2 manages to feel way more like a game made by people who cared then by a business looking for a quick buck. During the games prime, the video game industry was bombarded with gritty FPS games that while still solid didn’t end up making the genre feel less special as a result. Overall the characters of Team Fortress 2 really do wonders and help make the game stand out from other FPS games. While the continuity is fairly loose with the comics, it is still incredible to see the writers take a game with little to no story, and create a story about it. We learn about the families of characters like Heavy and Sniper, we have a comic all about the director of the Meet the Team videos, and we even get to see more minor characters get their time to shine. Some of the comics would be for major updates, while others were made to tell a longer-form story.īut most importantly we got to see more development for the various classes. ![]() ![]() In May of 2009, Valve began to release comics based on TF2. Interestingly enough these were made with a proprietary tool Valve developed known as Source Filmmaker, and you can download it for free on Steam with many assets from TF2. While animation based on video games can be hit or miss, these are absolute hits in my book. This is honestly a genius move in my opinion, as they help promote the game to more people and make the characters more unique compared to other FPS characters. To help give players an idea of what the characters are like, Valve released a series of shorts know as Meet the Team.Įach short revolves around a different class from the game and what they are like as people. ![]()
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